Started this series of posts about books in my bookshelf a week ago. This Sunday the theme is science fiction and fantasy. In my opinion, there’s never enough good fantasy or scifi books in your shelf. And I think my book shelf is still missing a lot of my favourite books!

First I wanted to introduce two amazing scifi books. First is Sand by Hugh Howey, though I haven’t read this one yet. But it’s already one of my treasures, since I loved Howey’s Wool so much. In Sand the old world is covered with sand, and people are searching relics by sand-diving. I’m already excited. City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer is really imaginative fantasy story collection, completely beyond this world. Requires definitely a rereading at some point.

Fantasy books are majority in my shelf. The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman has been one of my favourite fantasy series as long as I can remember. I wish I could some day own the whole series. Currently I have three of the books and they’re not even from the same edition. In the series wizard Haplo explores four different kind of elemental realms; earth, wind, stone and fire. The main conflict is between The Sartans and The Patryns. I warmly recommend the series if you’re in to fantasy, the world, the characters and the plot are just pure gold! Also wanted to mention Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman(Headline / Review 2005), is a collection of short stories and poems. Stories are hilarious, imaginative and simply fantastic. Gaiman’s stories never let me down and I’m a big fan of him, though my book shelf doesn’t seem like that. I’d love to own all of his books. I’m also considering I’d reread Smoke and Mirrors for the short story challenge. Let’s take some Finnish fantasy here, too. City of Woven Streets (The Weaver)by Emmi Itäranta is a fantastic dystopian story about a girl named Eliana, who is about to discover the terrifying secrets of her home island. At first, I actually liked a bit more of Itäranta’s first novel called Memory of Water, but The City of Woven Streets gets better after each reading and I’m glad I have this as a hardcover edition (in Finnish).